{"product_id":"mother-mary-comes-to-me","title":"Mother Mary Comes to Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed One of \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e's Top Ten Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography Finalist for the Kirkus Prize Nominated for the Women's Prize for Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the best-reviewed books of the year, a raw and deeply moving memoir that \"pulses with compassion and moral outrage\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) from the legendary author of \u003ci\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e that traces her complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati's life both as a woman and a writer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this, her first work of memoir, Arundhati Roy writes, \"Perhaps even more than a daughter mourning the passing of her mother, I mourn her as a writer who has lost her most enthralling subject.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMother Mary Comes to Me\u003c\/i\u003e, is an intimate chronicle, \"full of precise imagery and blistering emotional intelligence\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e), of the relationship between two women, a school teacher and a writer, who happen to be mother and daughter. Roy writes with a novelist's unsettling ability to be inside her own story as well as outside it, simultaneously child and adult, attached and detached, protagonist and narrator. She describes how she came to be the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as \"my shelter and my storm.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Heart-smashed\" by Mary's death, yet puzzled and \"more than a little ashamed\" by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen, \"not because I didn't love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, \u003ci\u003eMother Mary Comes to Me\u003c\/i\u003e \"builds worlds that are revolutionary, made from the darkness that she spins into purpose\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e). An ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace--\u003ci\u003eMother Mary Comes to Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir like no other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45920950911149,"sku":"9781668094716","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/6954\/9997\/files\/imageloader_a7066637-82dd-46d3-b519-04a4ffa0beb6.jpg?v=1776540273","url":"https:\/\/thirdspacereadingroom.com\/products\/mother-mary-comes-to-me","provider":"ThirdSpace Reading Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}